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Two days. 17 sessions.

Defining Precision for Growing Hands — 53 topics

Congenital Hand

Congenital hand reconstruction and the decisions that shape it
The Hand That Was Born Different
  • Embryology of Hand: Concepts and Clinical Relevance
  • Syndromic Syndactyly Approach and Surgical Strategy
  • Thumb Hypoplasia: Reconstruction Options
  • Not Just Classification Decision-Making That Changes Outcomes
Congenital Hand: Controversy Court
  • Radialization or Centralization in RCH
  • Strategy for Crooked Fingers (Kirner, Clino and Campto)
  • Which Congenital Hand Issue - I Won't Treat Surgically?
How Do I Do It?
  • Pollicisation
  • Syndactyly Release
  • Novel Method of Percutaneous Osteotomy for RCH

The Trauma Track

Decision-making debates and the cases that keep you awake
The Great Pediatric Trauma DebateThere is more than one right answer.
  • Observe vs Operate - SC # Humerus
  • CRIF vs ORIF - RU Shaft #s
  • SC Humerus # with Pulseless Hand
What Would You Do Now?
  • The Monteggia, We Could Not Reduce!
  • The Stiff Paediatric Elbow
  • Failed Pollicisation
Cases That Keep You Awake!
  • The Simple Lateral Condyle That Wasn't Simple
  • The TRASH Lesions
  • The Nerve Deficit
  • Open Injuries in Forearm

Surgical Craft

Signature cases, surgical videos and fingertip injuries
Surgical Videos
  • 4th Dimension of Forearm Deformity Correction in Children: 3D Technologies from Bench to Bed
  • Radial Neck # CRIF
My Worst Case PULS Signature SessionWhat I did, what went wrong, what I learned.
  • The Forearm Malunion
  • Precision in Small Bones: Navigating Pediatric Hand Fractures
  • Physeal Injury
Fingertip Injuries
  • Flaps I Must Know
  • Techniques of Nailbed Fixation

Microsurgery & Nerve Reconstruction

Brachial plexus birth palsy and microsurgery in tiny hands
Brachial Plexus Birth Palsy
  • Outcomes of Distal Nerve Transfers in Avulsion Injuries in BPBP
  • Primary Nerve Reconstruction in Global BPBP
  • Secondary Procedures for Shoulder Function
  • Secondary Procedures for Elbow/Forearm Function + Surgical Video
  • Biceps to FDP Tendon Transfer
  • MISR & Pectoralis Transfer for Shoulder Abduction
Microsurgery In Tiny HandsPrecision and outcomes.
  • Toe Transfers in Children
  • FFMT - Indications and Outcomes
  • Local/Regional Flaps for Crush Forearm/Hand
  • Reimplantation
Closing Grand Finale

The PULS Image Olympics

Pediatric Upper Limb Championship Award

Fellows & Junior Consultants go head-to-head with Senior Consultants — live, on the clock.

X-Rays Clinical Photos CT/MRI Operative Photos
20
Cases
60s
Per Case
2
Teams

Function, Not Deformity

Cerebral palsy and the diagnostic traps of tumour, trauma and infection
Cerebral Palsy: Think Function, Not Deformity
  • Restoring Function: Surgical and Non-Surgical Approaches to Spasticity in Cerebral Palsy
  • Neuromodulation for Spasticity: Strategic Use of Botulinum Toxin
  • Precision Nerve Targeting: The Science of Hyperselective Neurectomy
  • Comprehensive Management of UL Involvement in Arthrogryposis
  • Tendon Transfers for CP
Tumour, Trauma, Infection - Or Something Else?The pediatric upper limb diagnostic trap.
  • Bone Cyst: Injection or Curettage
  • Exostosis of Ulna
  • Chronic Osteomyelitis Forearm
  • Managing Post-Traumatic Growth Arrest in DER

Looking Ahead

Unusual problems, common solutions, and where the field is heading
Unusual Problems, Common Solutions
  • Nuances in Correction of Post-Burns Hand Contractures and Deformities in Paediatric Age Group
  • VIC: Reconstruction of Complex Post-Traumatic Sequelae, Including Distraction
  • Madelung's Deformity
The Future Of Pediatric Upper Limb Surgery
  • 3D Printing
  • Microsurgery
  • WALANT in Children
  • Splinting and Special Cast Materials